| The summer holidays might be drawing to a close but, as most readers read more in the summer break, don’t let your renewed passion for the printed word fade with the temperature. To help we have lots of interesting features as well as dozens of new books to tempt you, each personally selected by one of Lovereading’s editorial experts. Read on for more information. |
Summer Reading
For those with a late holiday planned don’t forget to select your holiday reading beforehand right here at Lovereading. Airport bookshops often have a rather limited range and the wrong book on holiday can take the shine off any time away. Our Summer Reading is split into moods rather than genre so see our special section to find out more and download and read an extract before you buy to make
sure you will enjoy it. Finally, if you are driving or flying away to get on holiday, do take a look at our unabridged audio books that give you hours of listening pleasure.
Missing Stieg Larsson? Then you’ll LOVE Jo Nesbo
Many of you regularly use our ‘Like-for-Like’ feature but in order for more of you to become familiar with it, we are in September bringing you a great feature called ‘If You Like – You’ll Love’. However, we couldn’t wait until then to tell you about a fantastic author being heralded as the new Stieg Larsson.
Jo Nesbo is a crime novelist who has had great success in his homeland of Norway and now his books are getting the attention they deserve across Europe. His thrilling and disturbing new novel The Snowman is just published and it’s chilling, inventive storyline, about a menacing serial killer, is guaranteed to keep you gripped from beginning to end! Don’t miss it.
This month’s Highlights – not to miss
60 great years for publisher Transworld
Transworld Publishers was established in 1950 and they have an impressive record of discovering and publishing a whole host of household names.
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, they published some stunning novels that are now classics including Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal and John Irving’s The World 
According to Garp in Corgi paperback.
Today many of the nation’s biggest-selling brand name authors have been published by Transworld including Kate Atkinson, Dan Brown, Jilly Cooper, Frederick Forsyth, Terry Pratchett and Joanna Trollope.
To celebrate this landmark birthday we’ve selected 20 of our favourite Transworld authors and we have an exclusive competition to win all 20 books. Take a moment to peruse the list and get stuck in!
Pre Publication exclusives
A chance to be ahead of the game. These yet-to-be-published titles are well worth a look.
The Home Bible – George Clarke
From the presenter of TV shows Restoration Man and Build a New Life, The Home Bible is an essential recipe book, full of golden rules, top tips and inspiring examples, to show you how to realise the full potential of your home.
Nourishment – Gerard Woodward
Tory Pace’s husband is a Prisoner of War, whose request for spicy letters from his woman at home leads her on a journey of discovery of carnal desire in the libraries, public conveniences and barber shops of South East London: a quest that takes surprising and dangerous turns, even culminating in an unwitting act of cannibalism.
The Brave – Nicholas Evans
At last a new novel from the author of The Horse Whisperer and like that one, we think this one will sweep you away. It is a rich tale of the life of Tommy Bedford, whose only means of escape from his sadistic 1959 boarding school is an obsession with Cowboys and Indians. Salvation comes when his sister marries TV cowboy Ray Montane and they are taken off to Hollywood. However the dark side of Tinsel Town soon rears its head and Tom finds himself in great danger. 40 years later he will re-face these ghosts when his own son finds himself accused of murder.
Annexed – Sharon Dogar
This is the imagined diary of Peter van Pels, the boy who shared an attic hiding place in war torn Amsterdam with Anne Frank and her family.
This amazing, sometimes chilling fiction, imagines what Anne and Peter’s relationship might have been like at this time and after they are caught what Peter’s life was like in those awful circumstances.
Don’t miss out on one of the summer’s hottest and most controversial reads – Room by Emma Donoghue
Recently long-listed for the Man Booker this is a must read this summer. Room is a profoundly affecting read, told from the perspective of a 5-year old child, born to a kidnapped sex toy, who has never left his 12’ x 12’ prison. He is happy, normal and innocent. But what happens when his world is shattered is utterly extraordinary.
So good it’s a crime
The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and achievement. The finalist’s for the awards have just been announced and the winners will be crowned on Friday 8th October at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Why not visit our special section to see the finalists for the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller and the John Creasey New Blood Dagger for a new author of note.
Kate Atkinson author of the month
Kate Atkinson’s first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1995. She has subsequently published critically acclaimed novels such as Human Croquet, and Case Histories.
Her featured work this month is Started Early Took My Dog, in which unlikely heroine – security chief, Tracy Waterhouse – makes a purchase she hadn’t bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy’s humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Why not take a peak and read an extract from this her new novel and indeed from her backlist too, right here exclusively on Lovereading?
Our unconventional Guest Editor – Veronica Henry
Having been “asked to leave” nearly every educational institution she attended in her youth, she has a view of the world that is greatly suited to her chosen path of novelist and TV script writer (Heartbeat and Holby City among many others).
So, this is a great opportunity to discover her writing, especially her newest title The Beach Hut which is a brilliantly observed exposé of the comings and goings of beach hut vacationers over one long, hot summer.
As always with our Guest Editors, Veronica will be sharing with us the writers and titles which have influenced and shaped her own journey as a novelist. We can’t wait!
From Beyond the Grave – John Buchan Remembered
John Buchan, creator of the famous character of Richard Hannay, died 70 years ago this August. But he has written so much more that we have chosen a bumper selection of his titles and we hope you’ll see this as a perfect opportunity to get better acquainted with a great man who led a truly extraordinary life: he was a diplomat, soldier, barrister, journalist, historian, politician, publisher, poet and novelist, until his death in 1940.
Vote for your favourite TV Book club Summer read and have the chance to win £100 of book vouchers
The public vote is currently open to select the best TV Book Club Summer Read. Katherine Webb’s THE LEGACY certainly wowed the book club panel and there were seven more cracking reads that have all been reviewed. To have your say click here and enter.
All votes will be entered into the book token prize draw and voting closes on 23 Aug.
Happy Reading
Peter C :: Aug.18.2010 ::
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